Waheedah Shabazz-El is a 58-year-old heterosexual African American Muslim woman from Overbrook who discovered she was HIV positive while in prison in 2003.
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A cure for AIDS: The National Institutes of Health spends only 3% of its AIDS research funding on a cure. Check out the campaign to push for a CURE: www.AIDSPolicyProject.org --Volunteers & contributions are needed!— Michelle Johnson- theres more money in "treatment" than curing- money money money...very sad.— Beauty
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- Not sure what this has to do with AIDS or ACTUP, but no, there aren't malaria vaccines, though researchers have been trying to develop them for years. Why do you think this? Why do you post this incorrect info, which a quick Google search shows to be false?
- Chester L..what "special" minority are you referring to?— tdoc
- I love how people jump to conclusions instead of asking questions. According to my friends who are research scientists from Cambridge, it is extremely difficult to find a cure for AIDS because it mutates so quickly. When our DNA replicates, it has a component that acts like a proofreader to make sure our DNA has replicated correctly. This "proofreader" recognizes a mutation within our DNA and either corrects it or kills the cell. When the AIDS virus replicates itself in the human body, it replicates so quickly that mistakes, or mutations are bound to happen and go uncorrected, since viruses don't have the same "proofreader" that we have. These constant mutations make it nearly impossible to find a cure because as soon as one mutation has occurred, another mutation has occurred. With all these different mutations, it's very difficult for research scientists to create a drug can fight and kill all these mutations. Mutations vary from person to person too.— katied01
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- A cure for AIDS: There's a major article in this week's New York Magazine--a man was cured in 2007: http://nymag.com/health/features/aids-cure-2011-6/index1.html
— Michelle Johnson - whats cheaper: pills or condoms. Know whats free? Personal responsibility— Mags37
- And "pleaseaskyourself", by the tone of your post it's quite clear that you suggest everyone who gets AIDS ""deserved" to get it most likely because of unprotected sex or sharing "dirty" needles. How about those who contract HIV via blood transfusions? Or children born of mothers with AIDS? Or the husbands and wives who unknowingly contracted it simply by having sex with their spouses? You can't just lump everyone into one category pal.....— KimThL
- Heterosexual-African-American-Muslim-Female.....and why does that EVEN matter? Unless.....wait...now I understand what many are getting at in the comments.— sillybilly
- Did you ever ask yourself "i have a brain, but why dont i use it"? I feel like we're back in the 1980s again where no one knew anything about AIDS. Just because a person has aids doesnt mean they did anything wrong to get it. What about the poor person whose spouse or significant other cheats on them with someone that has aids and then they come home to sleep with their significant other? So thats their fault? I swear some of you people if i held you head to my ear i could hear the ocean. You could have HIV/AIDS and not even know it. And the person trying to compare HPV and herpes to AIDS, that comment was absolutely asinine. You're totally uneducated about those disease if you are even attempting to put those in the same sentence as AIDS. Also regarding the Malaria comment.... AIDS is more devastating and more world wide spread. I swear people are any of you educated at all. This is why there is hatred and bigotry and stupidity in the world. People are just plain dumb. Did you all get together and bet who could come up with the stupidest comment? Get educated on these issues and diseases and then comment— philliekev04
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